Change of pace finds through my rummage at the card show

I thought it might be fun to dig through the non-sport portion of the quarter boxes that turned into dime boxes [in quantity] at the show I was at - even if the celebrity cards are dated [I can't believe 2008 is 15-16 years ago already], they still end up adding some novelty eye candy, when the rest of my haul ends up cards of men who mostly play pro sports.

I was worried that the celebrity cards would end up dupes since I picked up some at another bulk card rummage earlier in the year - though I apparently only had the Evan Mendes [actress] and Kristen Stewart [actress].

Featured autograph - Anthony Sullivan

I was in San Diego last Sunday to see if I could go to the Futures Game for some autographs - not much luck getting autographs of Major League Baseball's top prospects, though outside the ballpark, I was able to get Sullivan, a TV pitchman.

2013 Topps 75th Anniversary hobby pack recap

Non-sports cards have little appeal to me, especially ones that were printed from the same junk wax era [1986-1992] as baseball cards - I saw random posts about this on Chris Olds' Twitter and tried a pack to see if I can hit anything on a one-pack impulse purchase for $4.

I had the same experience opening packs of the first year of Topps Archives baseball in 2001, where I didn't know what I had - but 75th Anniversary basically consist of reprints with write-ups about the original set on the back.

It's kind of fun seeing a mash up of different cards reprinted from Topps' non-sport trading card history - though the cards seems whimsical and odd, not focused on one theme or one product.

Pack one

#83 Michael Jackson

#49 Winston Churchill - Who am I?

#4 Tarzan and The She Devil

#2 X-Ray Round Up

#84 New Kids on the Block - Foil parallel

#15 James Dean 

#72 Grease 

#64 Comic Book Heroes Stickers

Odds and ends from the card shop

The last things on my mind when rummaging through cards is going through ones featuring mostly a non-sport theme or picking up ones picturing deceased subjects - but I picked these cards out of a stack of 2013 Panini Golden Age for whatever reason.

2013 Panini Golden Age Woodrow Wilson #16

2013 Panini Golden Age George "Spanky" McFarland #36

2013 Panini Golden Age Branch Rickey #49

2013 Panini Golden Age Elizabeth Montgomery #70

2013 Panini Golden Age Eva Gabor #91
2013 Panini Golden Age Johnny Carson #123

2013 Panini Golden Age Lyman Bostock #144